Tobacco Industry Forced to List Ingredients Used in Their Products

In 2009, the Food and Drug Administration gained authority to regulate tobacco products, and now they will soon be exercising that ability. Already releasing preliminary guidelines for the tobacco industry that can educate consumers on exactly what is in cigarettes, the FDA is making it so tobacco companies will have to report on the amount of harmful and unsafe ingredients used in their products.

The Dangerous Ingredients in Tobacco Products

Within one year, the FDA plans to share information on chemical amounts, while tobacco makers will be required to report on the amount of 93 substances used in their products. This means that harmful ingredients used such as ammonia and formaldehyde will need to be made known to the public. This decision will certainly ignite a slew of ingredient-based information regarding tobacco products.

“We are forging new territory to ensure that tobacco companies provide accurate information and do not mislead American consumers. We are committed to stopping such practices that may cause people to start or continue using tobacco products that could lead to preventable disease and death,” FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg said in a statement.

There are over 4,000 individual compounds identified in tobacco and tobacco smoke, with at least 60 of them being known carcinogens. How would you feel after finding out that with every cigarette comes a dose of insecticide, car exhaust, gas chamber poison, ant poison, floor cleaner, mothballs, and nuclear weapon material? The fact is, there are hundreds of chemicals in tobacco products (and cigarettes especially) that people don’t even know about.

Insecticide – nicotine

Car exhaust – carbon monoxide

Gas chamber poison – hydrogen cyanide

Ant poison – ammonia

Mothballs – naphthalene

Nuclear power – radioactive compounds

While this kind of information won’t be responsible for ending the bad habit of smoking for the majority of individuals, it may serve to kick the habit for many. Even while smoking and tobacco use is already known to cause various cancers such as lung cancer, throat cancer, and stomach cancer, the health damaging aspects of smoking aren’t enough for people to quit. But now, seeing “formaldehyde”, “lead”, and “arsenic” on the label may just be enough to cause many people to finally quit smoking and tobacco use.

Post written byMike Barrett:Mike is the co-founder, editor, and researcher behind Natural Society. Studying the work of top natural health activists, and writing special reports for top 10 alternative health websites, Mike has written hundreds of articles and pages on how to obtain optimum wellness through natural health.

15 responses to “Tobacco Industry Forced to List Ingredients Used in Their Products”

so, basically the fda can ban drugs that may be a bit unsafe for our health but the benefit of cures will prevail BUT they will not ban something that has no health benefit and will absolutely kill you, in painful and long term ways. i think someone needs to look at this government agency and revamp it a bit.

The real corruption of the cigarette has occured when certain people conspired to make so called "Fire Safe Cigarettes."

The definition is b*lls*it, the sticks now taste like glue, no matter the brand name, probably cause more problems then they claim to solve, and many people on the web are complaining of health issues brought on by these so called FSC!

Do any of you actually know what smoking arsenic, ammonia, radioactive compounds, carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide, naphthalene, lead and formaldehyde would do to you. If this were true I'd be amazed people don't drop dead after a single cigarette.

I'm sure they add a lot of chemicals to cigarettes but this is just straight out propaganda. Stop feeding people these lies and maybe they'll actually start recognizing the actual dangers of smoking. This is what is makes people smoke. Not seeing someone smoke in a movie, not hearing about smoking in a song. It's waking up to the harsh reality that our governments, big businesses and the media are corrupt to their very core. That we have been lied to our entire lives by the people that have taught us everything. We lose all faith in what they have taught us, what anyone can teach us. It's a vicious cycle of ignorance that must stop and the first step is to seek out knowledge for yourself.

Stop relying on the media for facts and information. Try not just to learn things but to understand them for yourselves. This has become a concerning global issue that is detrimental to the very society we live in, one which must be solved if not for the future of mankind. Switch off your televisions, initiate your synapses and turn your empty shell into a learning loving living being.

ANONYMOUS INTELLIGENCE GROUP OCCU-3.1416, DISCOVERED FROM TOBACCO RE-DRYING TECHNICIANS, THAT BULK TOBACCO IS SEALED IN A VACUUM TREATMENT WAREHOUSE, AND FUMIGATED WITH CYANIDE GAS TO KILL TOBACCO EATING WORMS, WHOSE EXISTENCE IN THE INSECT WORLD IS TOP SECRET!!!

this is a fact, my brother worked for the worlds largest manufacturer of cigarette paper (company located in New Jersey) and he said this "if people only knew what chemicals were in the paper tobacco is rolled into they would STOP SMOKING)……AMEN

In Europe there's a law called the "Purity Law". It states that cigarettes can contain……TOBACCO and THAT'S ALL. No such law exists in the US so cigarettes have become a was of deliberately poisoning people so as to up the profits of the Pharma industry and Medical industry.

The other problem with the US tobacco products is the FILTERS – they contain lots of CHEMICALS, so they're NOT a filters per se, but rather a DELIVERY SYSTEM. There was a recall on Marlboro back in the 80's. I remember it distinctly, because people were getting sick because the chemicals in THE FILTERS were screwed up. That's when I gave up filters.

I now roll my own and buy European tobacco. Until the time comes when I want to quit, I'll avoid American companies products. But one thing is certain, they'll have to increase the SIZE of the cigarette packs in the US in order to have enough ROOM to list all the ingredients on the packs.